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by jan
29 Nov 2016, 12:25
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Free music fonts
Replies: 23
Views: 32861

Re: Free music fonts

I have updated the Elbound Music Font Package to v1.1. It includes many minor optimizations (especially kerning and spacing), four new fonts (Musica, Symbola, Noto Sans Symbols and Gonville) and 16 new composite symbols which make the incomplete original fonts even look more consistent in Finale. Jan
by jan
29 Nov 2016, 08:37
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Extra fonts in Finale
Replies: 13
Views: 15468

Re: Extra fonts in Finale

You find more examples of Chaconne and Kousaku on the Music Font Comparison page.
Attached are two PDFs from the comparison.

Jan
by jan
29 Nov 2016, 08:31
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Music Type Foundry - new fonts!
Replies: 20
Views: 26341

Re: Music Type Foundry - new fonts!

The method is described in more detail here, but it's mainly what OCTO wrote: Mastering FontForge and its script language https://elbsound.studio/experiments-in-automatic-font-conversion.php Each glyph is transformed by many FontForge script elements. It looks something like this (this about 30% of ...
by jan
28 Nov 2016, 18:13
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Music Type Foundry - new fonts!
Replies: 20
Views: 26341

Re: Music Type Foundry - new fonts!

Here is a comparison I wrote on the free BetvnFIN font from my Elbsound Music Font Package and Abraham's new MTF-Beethoven-Fin: https://elbsound.studio/beethoven-music-font-test.php PDFs with a symbol comparison To sum it up one can say that with BetvnFIN it's just one click to change the music font...
by jan
28 Nov 2016, 17:51
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Extra fonts in Finale
Replies: 13
Views: 15468

Re: Extra fonts in Finale

In the past these four fonts were also included in the free demo of the Japanese Finale 2014 release.

Jan
by jan
23 Nov 2016, 17:40
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: Colored sheet music
Replies: 16
Views: 19966

Re: Colored sheet music

Could be in a few days or 2-3 weeks. I am working from time to time on it, and depends on how many problems I will still encounter... but shouldn't be too long. The updated font package will also include four new transformed music fonts: Gonville, Musica, Symbola and Noto Sans Symbols.
by jan
23 Nov 2016, 17:32
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: Colored sheet music
Replies: 16
Views: 19966

Re: Colored sheet music

qanunji, I have noticed with pleasure that some of my Elbsound music fonts from last month have made it into your nice scores (Aruvarb, EmntlFIN, RoFIN, BetvnFIN). Currently I am working on an update of the font package with 16 new composite symbols (tempo marks, grace notes, quarter-tone accidental...
by jan
25 Oct 2016, 10:23
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Free music fonts
Replies: 23
Views: 32861

Re: Free music fonts

Wait, but on your video you use 0, and the box is much larger. Stop video at 0:15. Sorry, I was a bit unclear. What I meant is the box with the smallest distance (distance=0) to the font boundaries. That was the problem we were talking about. One would expect that 0 is the smallest distance to the ...
by jan
24 Oct 2016, 14:37
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Free music fonts
Replies: 23
Views: 32861

Re: Free music fonts

No, the box with the smallest distance from the symbol boundaries. More or less same result with using 1 in line thickness, height and width.
by jan
24 Oct 2016, 13:07
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Free music fonts
Replies: 23
Views: 32861

Re: Free music fonts

>When I uaed your fonts for the first time all Expressions with the space and white background became very huge until I fixed the space FAN. >In Maestro all 0-values give really large boundaries. Not sure why. Hm, I still cannot reproduce it on Windows, but I will check it later on my Mac. Or did it...